Madeline Gannon was interviewed for The Prompt, a magazine from Figma exploring Artificial Intelligence, Design, and Code. Gannon was interviewed by Jenny Xie for the article Are we finally entering the age of androids? The robots are here, but are we ready for them?
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Madeline Gannon was invited to talk with Oliver Herwig for Nomad Magazine’s latest issue on Intelligence. In the interview they discuss how to navigate towards optimistic outcomes amidst waves of technological change. Gannon was photographed in her Miami studio by Gesi Schilling.
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We are very proud to have contributed words and work to the newly released Designing the Computational Image, Imaging Computational Design. This book, by Daniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli, is a comprehensive catalog of the cross-disciplinary genealogy of Computational Design.
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Madeline Gannon is a featured artist at the inaugural Catalyst Forum, an annual meeting hosted by the Knight Foundation for leaders at the forefront of innovation in the arts. Gannon is debuting a new musical performance made in collaboration with the New World Symphony fellow and violinist Ye Jin Min.
Min composed and choreographed a new piece titled “Four Moons” that she will perform as a duet with Gannon’s koriobots: a team of cable-driven robots that are dynamically choreographed to make things seemingly float through mid-air.
Dr. Madeline Gannon will be giving a talk titled Breathing Life into Machines: Motion Generation for Robotic Behaviors as a part of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute Seminar Series on November 13, 2023 at 2:30PM.
In this talk, she shares her experiences taming giant mechanical beasts around the world. She gives a behind-the-scenes look into her sensing and simulation tools, and discusses techniques for translating between human and robot gestures. Finally, she highlights the limitations of natural gesture interfaces for HRI, and proposes opportunities worth further exploration in different robot form factors.
Madeline Gannon will Keynote Pavilion 2023: an international festival that explores cutting-edge projects and practice-based research in the creative disciplines. The event features an exciting agenda that includes showcased works, inspiring lectures by industry-leading experts and renowned keynote speakers, visits to notable architecture and design studios, networking spaces, and much more.
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Madeline Gannon will speak at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design as a guest lecturer in the Robert B Church III Memorial Lecture Series. Her talk, Creative Robotics: Breathing Life into Machines, discusses how to leverage an architecture and design education to bring creative innovation into robotics.
Madeline Gannon is one of six artists awarded with a Knight New Work 2022 grant to produce new works that use technology to transform how arts is created, disseminated, and experienced. Gannon’s winning proposal, Open Source Toolkit for Creative Robotics, will use the $90,000 grant to create develop cutting-edge software tools that make creative robotics more open to artists, designers, and architects.
Read more from the Knight Foundation here.
Madeline Gannon is a featured artist in NVIDIA’s AI Art Gallery. Her work Other Natures is on display alongside the work of other artists that use AI as a tool, a collaborator, or a muse to yield creative output that could not have been dreamed of by either entity alone
Madeline Gannon has been invited to the 2019 World Economic Forum Cultural Leaders delegation. While in Davos, she’ll be speaking as a part of the Open Forum programming: sharing stories of friendship and belonging across human, animal, and machine boundaries. Madeline will also join the Global Internet of Things Council as a Firestarter, to bring to light the new challenges and possibilities that robotics and IoT bring for society as a whole.
Watch the livestream for Storytellers: In Search of Belonging on the Forum website on Wednesday 23 January, 15:00 - 16:30 Europe/Zurich
The Global Internet of Things Council takes place on Thursday 24 January, 16:00 - 17:30 Europe/Zurich
Madeline Gannon gave a keynote address to the Opening Forum of ABB Customer World China. She shared her work in taming giant industrial robots, and discuss how we can bring human-centered design to the forefront automation and robotics industry.
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The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has been awarded Madeline Gannon an Innovative Research Award of Excellence at the annual ACADIA Conference, held this year in Mexico City, Mexico.
From the ACADIA Awards Committee's citation: “This award recognizes Madeline Gannon’s significant contribution to the field of robotics bringing a fresh new perspective exploring concerns of empathy and companionship. Madeline's innovation expands the current tradition of technology towards a more diverse and inclusive field of technology.”
Madeline Gannon has been named a featured artist for the 2018 World Economic Forum Summer Davos program. As a part of the program, ATONATON will debut a newly commission installation — Manus, and Madeline will give a BetaZone talk sharing her robotics work in the context of New Frontiers in Creativity. You can see the recorded talk here!
Madeline Gannon is speaking with Ira Flatow and the SciFri crew at Science Friday Live: Pittsburgh on May 19th at 7:30pm. Come by for a robot-packed evening with a some of Pittsburgh’s most talented artists and scientists (tickets can be purchased here).
You can listen to the radio broadcast on May 25th at 2pm (ET) — or to the podcast episode here!
Madeline Gannon will be giving a keynote to kick off SPAN '17 — a conference about design and technology, hosted by Google.
From September 14-15, SPAN attendees will connect with leading designers, artists, technologists, and researchers—in addition to a few bright folks from Google. Through talks, conversations, workshops, and demos, the conference will explore links across design, technology, and socially engaged creative practice. See the full schedule here and register here!
Mimus was awarded an Honorary Mention from this year's Ars Electronica STARTS Prize jury for innovation at the intersection of Science, Technology, and the Arts. A video of Mimus will be on exhibition in this year's Ars Electronica Festival, held in Linz, Austria from September 7-11, 2017.
Our latest project, Mimus, will be living at the Design Museum London for five months — from November 24th, 2016 to April 23rd, 2017. Mimus was commissioned as a part of the Museum's inaugural exhibition, Fear and Love: Reactions to a Complex World.
Madeline Gannon will being speaking at this year's WIRED: Next Gen conference. This one-day event for 12-to-18-year-olds brings exciting interactive experiences and engaging talks about everything from space travel to bionics to robotics. See the full line-up of speakers here.
